DRM is not the same as file security. Encrypting my personal files with a private password is not necessarily DRM. DRM is about protecting my rights on a file I no longer control, while still allowing SOME rights to it. That is almost impossibly difficult to guarantee on unmanaged computers as any Comp Sci major or hacker should know by now, and why DRM is stupid. Also, if DRM is going to continue, we need governments to enforce that it actually be DRM and not digital-wishful-thinking-management... wheres the timeout in my WMV file that makes it public domain 120 years after the author's death? Seriously, in 200 years, people are going to recover data from our era and not be able to read/listen/view it? That's just insane. Historians should be against DRM in its current form too.
You missed out on the Secret Service, which also have a long history of varied responsibility. From currency monitoring to protecting the president, to others.
Considering Microsoft's history with hardware manufacturing (including joysticks), I doubt they'll get costs down much. They admitted before launch that it might be the one issue that Sony would have a leg up on them with -- Sony's ability to continually improve yields and margins on product over the years.
Parent is not a troll -- the motion sensitivity is *very* sensitive. Play super rub'a'dub or any other game that uses the tilt functions heavily and you'll see how sensitive it can be. Watch the replays of the top players in super rub'a'dub to realize how precise it *must* be to let them do what they do.
As for the analog layout, my thumbs reach the sticks fine, with no funny bending, and I have great control, I just wish the L2 and R2 were concave as the other comment mentionned.
My only battery life annoyance with the PS3 controller is that it doesn't charge if the system is shut off. And no, its not off, its on "standby" of course, and could easily send power to the USB ports for charging purposes. It doesn't matter much as I usually leave it on F@H overnight with the controller plugged in.
And technology considered, its quite possible they've improved battery lifetime over the year as well, either with a better battery pack or lower power internal electronics, so we may not notice much difference in the end.
Yes, they're enforceable in the sense that you can punish him. No they're not in the sense that you can't actually *stop* him from talking. Sure, he might get punished for it, and that's an issue he has to wrestle with, but my point still stands -- if he wants to breach his contract, he can do so, but that might cost him.
the bigwigs at Universal do their thing and pretend to be totally P.O.ed about it. If they really wanted to stop him, they could.
Actually, no they couldn't. Not unless you think gag orders are actually enforceable. Just because someone has a contract doesn't mean you can stop them from talking about how much they dislike it.
For the record, the music industry has a record of trying to silence such people before. They'll probably drive Reznor away like the others if they protest too much, and he'd go independent just fine. They can't afford to lose their big artists, its bad for business, so they slap him on the wrist or try to talk him down.
Actually, they implicity relicense the code by selling it to me under the terms on the box. Go read that shrink-wrap license included in Windows sometime, or the one included with Internet Explorer, or with Word. All of them use BSD code in one place or another, and they mention as much, but they don't use the BSD license for redistributing said code, and they don't have to -- if they make a derivative work.
A lot of people misunderstand Copyright -- if you have the right to make a derivative work, then that resulting work is yours to relicense as you wish. The only issue is whether you had rights to the original or not.
I have to agree -- every time I hear a BSD license supporter complaining about people not sharing their code, I agree, and point out that I use the LGPL in such circumstances. The LGPL allows for a lot of uses, including commercial, but you can't lock up your changes to the software in question if you redistribute the work to others, which is what I want. If thats what you want from a BSD license, you're looking in the wrong place.
Many people disagree with your judgment on morality and justice. In fact we Canadians have made it perfectly legal to make private copies of music for personal use, no questions asked. Just borrow your friend's CD and rip it to your heart's content, my Sony PS3 even does it for me.
We also allow private copying *and* unmodified redistribution of anything broadcast over public airwaves.
Just because these companies have spent so much money convincing you what you're doing is wrong does not mean it is in fact wrong, just that you've drank the kool-aid.
The only way I can think of to actually earn billions would be working your way up in the very competitive real estate market. Of course, you're just as likely to go bankrupt, but the profit margins and work load are such that you can grow nearly exponentially in profits if you do it right.
I'll throw my votes in for the original Quake and Quake 2, Enemy Territory, Hexen and Perfect Dark 64 as the best FPS games I played before Halo was out. Resistance: Fall of Man is my current favourite.
AMD was also selling 64 bit desktop CPUs and Windows XP 64-bit was not available for some time. Home users were not likely to be running Windows Server 2003, thus the GP's post I'm sure.
the game is essentially trying to remind you "hey, there's more XP to be earned on this level that you might have missed"
if any RPG ever puts a dialog like that on my screen I'll return it immediately. That would just be stupid. If you don't level up sufficiently before encountering a big beast of some form, you die, end of story, replay the game and make better choices. Don't tell people HOW to win the game, that makes it an interactive movie, not a game.
In fact, to add to your point, Fair Use implies Copyright, as without Copyright, Fair Use is meaningless (since all uses become quite equally allowable).
That's not even remotely true; without Copyright there's no need for fair use, but there are still works created by virtue of the desire to do so. Many painters, authors, and other artists create their works for the sheer joy or desire to do so, not for any monetary gain or for the powers granted by Copyright. However, some works are in fact created because of Copyright, and that's why its allowed to exist at all, despite being essentially bad -- to encourage the creation of more works by granting special rights temporarily to authors.
I watch NBC, CBS, Fox, CTV, CityTV, CBC, Discovery, National Geographic, PBS and ABC in HD all the time via Satellite here in Canada. They look beautiful and have good programming too.
As a Canadian it always strikes me as funny that Americans refer to Republicans and Democrats as respectively conservative and liberal. To me they both look the same just with slightly different agendas -- and I do mean slightly. If you look at truly liberal groups in the world then a few really conservative ones, the lack of difference between republicans and democrats becomes more apparent.
That makes a whole lot of sense if we're talking about political discourse, but in this case its a news for nerds website with a fairly well set precedent for what type of story is newsworthy (GI Joes aside).
This is a community of users, not just two users, and I have yet to see any insightful comments about the article at all, just proving the point that nobody really is interested in this article. Even most of the mundane Slashdot articles get actual insightful comments added, but this one has almost entirely flames about the articles' existence. If indeed the majority of users here think this is useless stupid tripe, then they're probably right, its news for/them/.
I dunno, it might've just been a bad day, mind you I think the GI Joe "article" as moronic as it was may have had more global appeal than the underground mac community most of us have never heard of.
Why on earth did this get posted to the main page? This might be the dumbest tripe I've seen on Slashdot in a while (although I'm sure someone will reply with worse).
I can't speak directly from experience optimizing for each, but I'd say you've got your facts a bit screwy on bus bandwidth there from what I've both read and observed. Have a read of the Dr. Dobb's article It may be tricky, but the performance gains are worth the effort.
They comment on both the difficulty of fully optimizing for the cell as well as the immense capabilities of it:
In this article, we present strategies we've used to make a Breadth-First Search on graphs as fast as possible on the Cell, reaching a performance that's 22 times higher than Intel's Woodcrest, comparable to a 256-processor BlueGene/L supercomputer--and all this with just with a single Cell processor! Some techniques (loop unrolling, function inlining, SIMDization) are familiar; others (bulk synchronous parallelization, DMA traffic scheduling, overlapping of computation and transfers) are less so.
They accomplish some impressive optimizations and comment on how many more should be available if the effort were put in.
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DRM is not the same as file security. Encrypting my personal files with a private password is not necessarily DRM. DRM is about protecting my rights on a file I no longer control, while still allowing SOME rights to it. That is almost impossibly difficult to guarantee on unmanaged computers as any Comp Sci major or hacker should know by now, and why DRM is stupid. Also, if DRM is going to continue, we need governments to enforce that it actually be DRM and not digital-wishful-thinking-management ... wheres the timeout in my WMV file that makes it public domain 120 years after the author's death? Seriously, in 200 years, people are going to recover data from our era and not be able to read/listen/view it? That's just insane. Historians should be against DRM in its current form too.
I like a well-used low-level rumble for things like the car sliding out of control or being jostled (body check, crash, etc.)
As a regular replacement for a subwoofer, not so much, but as a subtle cue of something you should feel in real life, sure.
More importantly, did the GP really equate the evil of his statement with that of software / music / movie piracy?
You missed out on the Secret Service, which also have a long history of varied responsibility. From currency monitoring to protecting the president, to others.
Considering Microsoft's history with hardware manufacturing (including joysticks), I doubt they'll get costs down much. They admitted before launch that it might be the one issue that Sony would have a leg up on them with -- Sony's ability to continually improve yields and margins on product over the years.
Parent is not a troll -- the motion sensitivity is *very* sensitive. Play super rub'a'dub or any other game that uses the tilt functions heavily and you'll see how sensitive it can be. Watch the replays of the top players in super rub'a'dub to realize how precise it *must* be to let them do what they do.
As for the analog layout, my thumbs reach the sticks fine, with no funny bending, and I have great control, I just wish the L2 and R2 were concave as the other comment mentionned.
My only battery life annoyance with the PS3 controller is that it doesn't charge if the system is shut off. And no, its not off, its on "standby" of course, and could easily send power to the USB ports for charging purposes. It doesn't matter much as I usually leave it on F@H overnight with the controller plugged in.
And technology considered, its quite possible they've improved battery lifetime over the year as well, either with a better battery pack or lower power internal electronics, so we may not notice much difference in the end.
Yes, they're enforceable in the sense that you can punish him. No they're not in the sense that you can't actually *stop* him from talking. Sure, he might get punished for it, and that's an issue he has to wrestle with, but my point still stands -- if he wants to breach his contract, he can do so, but that might cost him.
For the record, the music industry has a record of trying to silence such people before. They'll probably drive Reznor away like the others if they protest too much, and he'd go independent just fine. They can't afford to lose their big artists, its bad for business, so they slap him on the wrist or try to talk him down.
Actually, they implicity relicense the code by selling it to me under the terms on the box. Go read that shrink-wrap license included in Windows sometime, or the one included with Internet Explorer, or with Word. All of them use BSD code in one place or another, and they mention as much, but they don't use the BSD license for redistributing said code, and they don't have to -- if they make a derivative work.
A lot of people misunderstand Copyright -- if you have the right to make a derivative work, then that resulting work is yours to relicense as you wish. The only issue is whether you had rights to the original or not.
I have to agree -- every time I hear a BSD license supporter complaining about people not sharing their code, I agree, and point out that I use the LGPL in such circumstances. The LGPL allows for a lot of uses, including commercial, but you can't lock up your changes to the software in question if you redistribute the work to others, which is what I want. If thats what you want from a BSD license, you're looking in the wrong place.
Yes, for now, but how long before they'd be up in front of Congress requesting changes?
Many people disagree with your judgment on morality and justice. In fact we Canadians have made it perfectly legal to make private copies of music for personal use, no questions asked. Just borrow your friend's CD and rip it to your heart's content, my Sony PS3 even does it for me.
We also allow private copying *and* unmodified redistribution of anything broadcast over public airwaves.
Just because these companies have spent so much money convincing you what you're doing is wrong does not mean it is in fact wrong, just that you've drank the kool-aid.
The only way I can think of to actually earn billions would be working your way up in the very competitive real estate market. Of course, you're just as likely to go bankrupt, but the profit margins and work load are such that you can grow nearly exponentially in profits if you do it right.
I'll throw my votes in for the original Quake and Quake 2, Enemy Territory, Hexen and Perfect Dark 64 as the best FPS games I played before Halo was out. Resistance: Fall of Man is my current favourite.
AMD was also selling 64 bit desktop CPUs and Windows XP 64-bit was not available for some time. Home users were not likely to be running Windows Server 2003, thus the GP's post I'm sure.
In fact, to add to your point, Fair Use implies Copyright, as without Copyright, Fair Use is meaningless (since all uses become quite equally allowable).
That's not even remotely true; without Copyright there's no need for fair use, but there are still works created by virtue of the desire to do so. Many painters, authors, and other artists create their works for the sheer joy or desire to do so, not for any monetary gain or for the powers granted by Copyright. However, some works are in fact created because of Copyright, and that's why its allowed to exist at all, despite being essentially bad -- to encourage the creation of more works by granting special rights temporarily to authors.
I watch NBC, CBS, Fox, CTV, CityTV, CBC, Discovery, National Geographic, PBS and ABC in HD all the time via Satellite here in Canada. They look beautiful and have good programming too.
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Stop watching crap
As a Canadian it always strikes me as funny that Americans refer to Republicans and Democrats as respectively conservative and liberal. To me they both look the same just with slightly different agendas -- and I do mean slightly. If you look at truly liberal groups in the world then a few really conservative ones, the lack of difference between republicans and democrats becomes more apparent.
That makes a whole lot of sense if we're talking about political discourse, but in this case its a news for nerds website with a fairly well set precedent for what type of story is newsworthy (GI Joes aside).
/them/.
This is a community of users, not just two users, and I have yet to see any insightful comments about the article at all, just proving the point that nobody really is interested in this article. Even most of the mundane Slashdot articles get actual insightful comments added, but this one has almost entirely flames about the articles' existence. If indeed the majority of users here think this is useless stupid tripe, then they're probably right, its news for
I dunno, it might've just been a bad day, mind you I think the GI Joe "article" as moronic as it was may have had more global appeal than the underground mac community most of us have never heard of.
Why on earth did this get posted to the main page? This might be the dumbest tripe I've seen on Slashdot in a while (although I'm sure someone will reply with worse).
They comment on both the difficulty of fully optimizing for the cell as well as the immense capabilities of it:
They accomplish some impressive optimizations and comment on how many more should be available if the effort were put in.